Henry J. Gomez is a senior national political reporter for NBC News.
One of the year’s top Senate races is set in Montana after Democratic Sen. Jon Tester and Republican entrepreneur Tim Sheehy won their primaries Tuesday, NBC News projects. The race is among a small handful that could be a tipping point for partisan control of the chamber. Montana — along with Ohio, where Sen. Sherrod Brown is pushing against similar headwinds in his own bid for a fourth term — is one of the GOP’s top opportunities to unseat a vulnerable Democrat.
“It’s going to be a competitive race, I don’t think anybody disagrees with that,” said Justin Barasky, a Democratic strategist who works on Senate races but is not involved in the Montana contest. “But the contrast couldn’t be more clear.” Democrats are expected to focus heavily on how Sheehy has admitted to lying about the circumstances of a gunshot wound. In one telling, Sheehy has said he was wounded in combat while serving in Afghanistan.
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